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Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas

BrainZooming

While this constraint may seem (and actually be) ridiculous, it shaped how the Brainzooming method developed. Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas. With off-target ideas, we would say, “That’s great,” and suggest other strategic thinking exercises to re-orient them toward a better direction.

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Strategic Thinking Exercise – Use a New SWOT Nobody Expects

BrainZooming

Here is a way you can turn a typical strategic thinking exercise into something new and fun that both adds variety to your strategy meeting AND could trigger some new ideas to get our strategy out of a rut! It highlights your organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Outrageous. Threatening.

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Creative Thinking Activities – 3 Questions to Stop Squandering Diversity

BrainZooming

Based on all The Brainzooming Group experience in helping clients generate new ideas and innovative strategies, diversity is vital to successful creative thinking activities. Let me ask a few questions: Does your organization have all the diversity it needs to uncover creativity and innovative strategies?

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5 Employee Engagement Ideas When Turnover Is High

BrainZooming

Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders need high-impact ways to develop employees that can provide input into strategic planning and then turn it into results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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Ideation: Anatomy of a New Product Idea

Taivara

If you have teams close to customers, working in the field, using your product everyday – they’ll often be a great source for early indicators of where existing products are missing the mark. In the broadest sense, we’re talking about open innovation. Good ideas often look bad. Keep egos out of this.

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Leadership Training – Walmart Hopes for Big Impact

BrainZooming

Walmart, a brand often immersed in debates about poor employee treatment, is piloting new training for both front-line employees and in-store managers. Department managers are receiving training, greater authority, and latitude to manage their department teams. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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Stop Building Products No One Wants: How to Experiment Your Way to Success

Moves the Needle

When it comes to the development and commercialization of new products , no one holds more accountability for the product’s ultimate success than the Product Manager. Product Manager” isn’t exactly a title that fits neatly into a box.